Abstract
The overlapping crises of climate change, conflicts, public health and economic downturns have exposed the fragility that already exists in the global and local food environments. Disruptions in the food environment have underscored the need to understand the food environments in various contexts to create conditions that enable and encourage rural households to choose healthy diets. However, there is a paucity of information on how much food households are accessing from local food environments as well as the characteristics of these food environments in developing countries. Therefore, this paper characterises the rural food in environment in Zimbabwe. Characterising local food environments provides a better understanding of the dynamics of a rural food environment and generates context-specific information that is important in enhancing local food environments to deliver healthy diets. The paper highlights the rural food environment typology during overlapping crises. This information is important for the formulation of context specific interventions, policies and strategies for building local resilience.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Food Production and Sustainability
KEYWORDS
FOOD ENVIRONMENT, RURAL, CRISES, FOOD ACCESS
